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PIFF 42 Official Selection

Tides

Directed by Masami Kawai

Oregon, United States • 2018 • 12 mins. • In English

A young girl reunites with her father when her parents take her on a beach outing in the hopes of repairing their estranged relationship. While her mom takes a nap on the beach, young Kai ventures into the deep ocean on her father’s back.

Appears in: 42nd Portland International Film Festival

The Northwest Film Center recognizes and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands the museum now stands. These include the Willamette Tumwater, Clackamas, Kathlemet, Molalla, Multnomah and Watlala Chinook Peoples and the Tualatin Kalapuya who today are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many other Native communities who made their homes along the Columbia River. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.